Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

“The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea” (HarperCollins, 453 pages, $27.99), by Philip Hoare: A subject as big as the whale demands a book as broad as “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the ...

“Moby-Dick” is often viewed as a singularly American creation. Part of the beguiling genius of “The Whale,” a rhapsodic meditation on all things cetacean, is that Philip Hoare so suggestively explores ...

Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World, by Philip Hoare (Pegasus Books, 304 pp., $28.95) In 1519, Albrecht Dürer was the most famous artist in northern Europe. But that ...

In the freezing winter of 1520, Albrecht Dürer set off from Antwerp to a remote part of the Netherlands to paint a beached whale, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. The German artist (pictured, in a ...

Philip Hoare, prizewinning author of “The Whale” and “The Sea Inside,” returns to the deep in his dreamy new exploration of the life of artist Albrecht Dürer. At least, that’s how “Albert and the ...

Humans walked on the moon before we photographed a free-swimming whale beneath the surface of the ocean. Not until 1984, some 15 years after Neil Armstrong put down his lunar boot prints, did we ...

In 'The Whale,' his widely acclaimed book about all things cetacean, Philip Hoare established himself as a perceptive observer of marine life, though an unlikely one. "I have always been afraid of ...

When the writer Philip Hoare takes an interest in something, he becomes obsessed. Sent in 1976 from his Southampton, England, home to London to study at a Catholic teaching college, he saw The ...

Matthew Sweet talks to Philip Hoare about literary history and the ocean. Poet Elizabeth Jane Burnett performs snippets from her collection, Swims. Writer Jake Arnott reassesses the film Prick Up Your ...